Hello MathGroup:
I am not sure that this is related, but...
I think Vista & Win7 has some type of "Math input palette" thingee
where it will try to interpret math gestures (maybe like a summation
symbol)....also I think I read somewhere that Mathematica also hooks into
this...maybe they are colliding...
Regards..
Roger Williams
Franklin Laboratory
On Jun 8, 4:07 am, sean <sean_inc... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have the similar problems on windows vista running Mathematica 7.01
> and word 2003 (Same thing happens with word 2007).
>
> Similar to the OP's issue, When word (2003 or 2007) is running at the
> same time as Mathematica, Mathematica becomes unresponsive to mouse
> inputs. Well, it becomes very sluggish to anything I'm trying to do in
> Mathematica. (like selecting, evaluating, even typing)
>
> I realized at one point, my problem was caused by endnote reference
> manager program integrated with Word.
>
> When I uninstalled Endnote (x.2 version), the problems disappeared.
> now I can run both word 2003 and 2007 at the same time as Mathematica
> and have no problems.
>
> It's quite unfortunate because Endnote is very useful for writing...
> hope there is some type of workaround for this.
>
> Another thing weird about endnote is that it uses "field" feature in
> Word which causes excessive CPU usage. At least that's what I can tell
> on my machine using task manager.
>
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